alcoholicorn

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[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Paying my landlord in racism

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Do you think average Ukrainians wanted to be drafted to fight America's war?

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Do I think it is better for a nation or a people to be freed from being ruled by a dictator

Except the US has no interest in freeing the people, hence why we give most dictators the weapons they use to keep their people down. We have interest in their resources and labor being cheap, which dictates our foreign policy.

The US doesn't want a Ukraine that serves the needs of the people, we want a Ukraine with low wages, no social programs, whose assets and resources are owned by western billionaires, and whose people can be sacrificed to further imperialist goals.

You can look at any other country we've "freed" in the last 50 years for comparison.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

The prisoner appears to be hooked up to mains power in the high res version of that photo.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Lets examine the evidence of history:

Do you think the people of Palestine are better off because of the US's actions? Do you think the people of Syria are better off because of the US's actions? Do you think the people of Libya are better off because of the US's actions? Do you think the people of Yemen are better off because of the US's actions? Do you think the people of Somalia are better off because of the US's actions? Do you think the people of Afghanistan are better off because of the US's actions? Do you think the people of Iraq are better off because of the US's actions?

And that's just in the last decade, and I know I missed a few. Do you really think Lucy is going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time?

America is not acting to help the people of Ukraine, we supported the right-wing throughout the coup so we could have a hostile state on Russia's border so the vultures can eat their fill as both countries are bled dry. Hence why Ukraine was required to sell off state assets to foreigners for pennies on the dollar, accept massive loans, give up mineral rights, lower the draft age, etc. Russia aren't the good guys, but the US's actions have resulted in a scenario infinitely worse for the Ukrainian people.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)

So is there any particular military history in the last 50 years you want to talk about? The invasion of Panama? Granada? Bombing Yugoslavia? Targeting Iraq's infrastructure during the gulf war, then imposing sanctions estimated to have caused a million excess deaths, mostly of children? Bombing a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan? Iraq II? Arming the groups that would become ISIS and Al Nusra?

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

He (and Biden) didn't care when the 100% tariffs on Chinese cars kept the average electric car price at like $60K, why would they care when Americans are paying $100,000 for an average car?

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think RAM issues can cause this.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

The kicker? They're German.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

The US is not NATO

It kinda is tho. It was set up by the US to counter the Warsaw pact and prey upon neutral countries, as Blinken put it "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu". This is evidenced by every single NATO action being in the US's interest.

Especially now with Trump in daddy Putins pocket.

As funny as it would be for Trump to dismantle NATO, his only issue with it is that it doesn't do enough imperialism.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

In OP are images of what NATO, an organization that has never fought a defensive war in its entire existence, calls defense.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

The first picture is an apartment block getting leveled.

The second one is a man at Abu Gharib being electrocuted with mains power, where thousands of prisoners, mostly picked up for petty crimes or detained without trial met worse fates, including worse torture, rape, and murder.

The third is a child who managed to tear her clothes off after the US dropped napalm on them as they fled their village, but was burnt badly enough she had to spend 14 months in the hospital. She was one of the lucky ones.

The fourth is the second atomic bomb the US dropped on a civilian population.

From what perspective is murdering hundreds (hundreds of thousands in the case of Nagasaki) of civilians just trying to live their lives on the other side of the planet acts of self-defense?

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FEMA camps (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

Back during the Bush and Obama years, I remember hearing so many right-wing conspiracies about FEMA camps.

Why didn't anyone ask "If FEMA has the ability to set up camps and transport large numbers of people, why aren't they doing that every time there's a big hurricane or wildfire?"

 

Looks like it's having a measurable effect.

 

The bill in question is the one Biden tried to pass, but was blocked by republicans after Trump called it a bad bill, despite containing only things the republicans want.

It would enable the president to shut down the border and gives billions to ICE, CPB, US Marshals, etc to increase detention capacity, train additional personnel, etc. It also gave billions to Israel and Ukraine.

Kamala gonna have the immigrant vote locked up.

 

Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold โ€” an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.

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